The volcanic eruption that ravaged Pompeii in year 79 is one of the most famous in history. It is known how its victims died, but how did they live? A new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption.

Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been...

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...

A documentary that uncovers the careers of a population of entertainers never heard from before: Bla...

A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...
A documentary with and about the legendary Italian Architect Carlo Scarpa.

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...
On the 8th September 1943, thousands of allied prisoners of war escaped into the Italian countryside...

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...

When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest miss...

The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own ga...

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...

Amanda Knox served four years in an Italian prison for the murder of her British flatmate Meredith K...

The Kush Empire was an ancient superpower that dominated the Nile Valley and rivaled the Egyptians, ...

Terry Jones' Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was w...

Presenter and former England football captain Gary Lineker follows in the footsteps of his grandfath...

Johan van der Keuken went against the grain in 1980: from Amsterdam (on April 30 with the coronation...